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I bought a cheap - £3 - USB Bluetooth adapter for my desktop and it's so useful - I can type SMS texts on a full size keyboard and send directly through the phone using Windows Phone Link. Nice.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Both of my laptops and my server machine have bluetooth. I'll have to check this out. Wait, I have an iPhone. Hmm.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I almost exclusively use Whatsapp for that so Whatsapp solved that. It is still useful for some equipment though.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Whatsapp is a Farcebook thing, so I expect them to be datamining every message ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The sensitivity of what I discuss on the Internet is low... because every single company with an infrastructure does it. I received targeted ads from my phone company when smartphone didn't exist.
So on any kind of communication medium I just talk about bullshit. Oh no, Meta now knows that I do my grocery from the only local supermarket in my hometown - shocking, shocking I say. Ah yes, they saw some OC meme and some blasphemy, heh, ok.
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den2k88 wrote: some blasphemy
One never expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Whatsapp is a Farcebook thing, so I expect them to be datamining every message
As opposed to...?
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I tried to use the Windows Phone Link last week and found the app to be garbage...or maybe it's my devices. Even with the phone sitting on top of the tower it still shows as Offline in the app. Right now, the phone is a mere 3 feet away from the tower and it's Offline in the app! Intermittently, it will show Connected but even then, my messages, phone calls, photos do not show up.
It also has the annoying behavior of randomly switching off the speakerphone on my cellphone while on a call. I have to disable Bluetooth to make it stop. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Yep - I was receiving and sending texts to my boss yesterday afternoon via the My Phone app on my Windows 11 machine.
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If you have a Bluetooth keyboard, you can pair it directly to your phone or tablet.
A lot easier and more portable. Handy for chat/messaging storms like coordinating a small group meetup.
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My Logitech Bluetooth keyboard has buttons 1 / 2 / 3: When I push '1', the keyboard input goes to my desktop, '2' sends it to my portable, '3' to my phone. The PC may be turned off while I write SMS-es: it is not at all involved. No transfer required, the keystrokes are already in place on the phone.
The 'Craft Advanced Keyboard' is definitely not the cheapest one in the marketplace, but I have never been more satisfied with a keyboard over a long time of use.
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This Android initially could be the new king's mail service (4)
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C3PO !
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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YAUT! I had wondered if it would go quickly or if the fact that there was a digit would make it invalid.
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New King = Charles 3
Mail Service = Post Office
Initially = Charles 3 Post Office = C3PO = Android
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Highlight the above (e.g. select it all) to see the solution
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I like this method of revealing the answer.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Aaarrrggg!  Not being British and also not one to follow the royal family very closely I thought he was King Charles II. Had I bothered to look it up I probably would have solved it. 
I don't know why a digit in the answer would be invalid, but I'm certainly no expert. So, in my opinion, nice clue! 
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I think any creative process can rise to the level of art when you can't teach someone how to be great at it.
I think you can teach any structural engineer how to be a great structural engineer, IMO. If you have the skillset, experience will carry you to greatness.
I do not think you can teach any engineer to be a great software developer. The skillset alone isn't enough to foment greatness.
Software development in some respects is like cooking, acting, painting, or dancing rather than like blueprinting.
Some people just have a knack, but most people will always plateau after a point because raw skillset only carries you so far, no matter how well you know C++ for example.
It doesn't mean that most coders can't code. they will just never be what I consider great. You have to have some artist in you, I think.
I don't say that to discourage anyone. I routinely code with someone who will never be an artist at the craft, but it's not to say he's not intelligent, or capable. There's nothing wrong with the code he produces. It's a solid average, and easy to understand, so it has that going for it. I can work with that. Very utilitarian.
But then there's great code. Code that makes you go "wow, I wish I would have thought of that"
He's not going to produce that code, and that's okay.
But there's an art to doing so.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 5-Oct-22 3:14am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I think you can teach any structural engineer how to be a great structural engineer,
I don't know enough about structural engineering but I know enough about engineering as a whole that while I understand the gist of what you are saying and I partially agree, I'm fairly sure we could both be surprised by the actual practice of any field of engineering.
Knowing is all weel and good, experience is paramount but some people just have or have developed an innate knowledge of their craft, a forma mentis that makes them particularly brilliant and allow them to find creative, original or groundbreaking solutions. In my years of working in highly multidisciplinary environment I learnt to never underestimate the level of brilliance people can attain in any field.
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It may not be the most ideal example, but it was the best example I could think of.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I understand what you're saying, I was just stating that I believe any kind of craft that requires either building something or solving problems can become 'an art', where you have people whose talent allows them to rise above the mere knowledge they possess. They can teach their knowledge, best practices and tricks but their talent cannot be passed down.
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You're probably right. I'm just up late.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Structural engineering needs the same level of artistry at the top levels, but is close enough to what we think we understand to believe it's "just" the boring application of simple principles, just as coding is.
Its worth looking at
[1] R. E. Bohn, “Measuring and Managing Technological Knowledge,” in The Economic Impact of Knowledge, Elsevier, 1998, pp. 295–314. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-7506-7009-8.50022-7. Also in HBR and at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237010832_Measuring_and_Managing_Technological_Knowledge[^]
The paper notes how we have a fading level of understanding as we go further away from our own field of understanding.
Forth Bridge; Golden Gate; Sydney Opera House 
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When I have to look at their source code, I strongly curse the artists and enjoy the solid, boring coders.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Absolutely agree!
As someone visiting old code(other people's as well as my own) my one immediate concern is "how easy is this to debug?"
Software developers sometimes have a tendency to write code with the mindset that "nothing will go wrong" rather than "how easy will it be to debug when something does go wrong"?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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